Arizona's Anti-Immigration and White Supremacy...

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White Supremacist Tied to Arizona Anti-Immigration Law

By Jessie

White supremacist, J.T. Ready, is one of the key players behind Arizona’s new anti-immigration law. J.T. Ready lead a recent neo-Nazi rally in Riverside, CA. Ready, a resident of Mesa, Arizona, is also one of the leaders of the anti-immigration movement in Arizona and a key figure behind the recent legislation. Rachel Maddow reported some of this in her segment on April 22 (clip is 9:08, bit about J.T. Ready is at about 3:20):

As John Carlos Frey noted earlier in April, hate crimes against Latinos in Arizona are up 40%, yet John McCain and his primary challenger, JD Hayworth, claim they are tough on undocumented immigrants and neither of them have the courage to denounce the racially motivated legislation.

The involvement of J.T. Ready is more than a case of “one bad apple” in an otherwise good system. J.T. Ready – an avowed white supremacist – has a political agenda that is completely consistent with the mainstream conservative movement in Arizona. This overlap between the extreme white supremacist movement and the more mainstream expressions of whiteness is a point that I noted this in my earlier book, (White Lies, Routledge, 1997). While most want to dismiss white supremacists as ‘fringe’ groups that have nothing to do with the mainstream, in fact, the ideology of these groups is much closer to core American values than most choose to recognize.
 
CIH said:
You never stop with your anti white hate.

You're associating all white people with white supremacist scum. I'm not.

I know it's a wet dream of yours to believe a majority of white people possess the same amount of hate & intolerance that you do, but that's not true. :cool:
 
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Profiling Arizona legislator Russell Pearce: Author of immigration law is pals with noted neo-Nazi

By David Neiwert Tuesday Apr 27, 2010 12:30pm

There are some things about state Sen. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona's new police-state immigration law, that Greta Van Susteren and all the other Fox anchors who've had him on this past week aren't telling you.

Indeed, they let him just come on and spew misleading nonsense, as he did last night on On the Record, telling Van Susteren that the law only "takes the handcuffs off" for law enforcement officers and "allows" them to arrest suspected illegal immigrants. Actually, it requires them to.

Well, we mentioned previously that Pearce has a colorful background involving the white-supremacist far right, including dalliances -- like his close pal Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- with neo-Nazis.

Rachel Maddow discussed some of this in her segment last night, but it's worth discussing some more so that people can fully appreciate the nature of the police state just signed into law in Arizona. Byron York has proclaimed it "a very carefully crafted law" -- and he is quite correct about that. Crafted to what end, however, is quite another story.

Y'see, back in 2006, Pearce caught a lot of people's attention by forwarding to a bunch of his friends and associates an article on immigration from a neo-Nazi news source -- namely, the National Alliance, the folks who brought you The Turner Diaries. The article was about Jewish control of the media and how it supposedly creates a bias against whites and favors minorities and Israel. Pearce apologized, but never could explain why he was reading material from the National Alliance in the first place.

But then he was seen working arm in arm with this fellow:

That's a guy named J.T. Ready, who also happens to be one of Arizona's leading neo-Nazis. Here's J.T. at a neo-Nazi rally in Nebraska:

Ready's tight with state Representative Russell Pearce, who's bashed Mexicans ever since a Latino teen shot off his finger when he was a county sheriff's deputy. Pearce is a racist law machine, pumping out statute after statute targeting the brown segment of AZ's population. At a June anti-illegal demonstration at the state Capitol, Ready and Pearce worked the crowd arm-in-arm.

Remember when Pearce forwarded a neo-Nazi e-mail to supporters in '06? Pearce claimed a "friend" sent him the e-mail. Could that "friend" have a last name that rhymes with "Freddy"?

The blanket isn't big enough these days for all the bigoted bedfellows who want in on the nativist lovefest. In any other state, Pearce's ties to a white nationalist like Ready would make him a pariah, especially after the outrage over that neo-Nazi e-mail.

Instead, both Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Candy Thomas recently honored Pearce at a "gala reception" and dinner to raise moolah for Pearce's committee exploring a primary challenge to Congressman Jeff Flake, a moderate Republican who's championed comprehensive immigration reform. It was $100 a plate for the dinner, $200 if you wanted a pic of yourself with Thomas, Arpaio, or radio wingnut Bruce Jacobs. Minuteman leader Chris Simcox was on the fundraiser's planning committee.

Pearce's political career has been built on an obsessive effort to demonize, scapegoat, and attack Latino immigrants. One of his more noteworthy previous efforts was an effort to eliminate Hispanic outreach programs in Arizona schools, predicated on the phony "MEChA is racist" meme. He's also proclaimed that illegal immigrants have no rights under the Constitution.

Just as noteworthy, perhaps, is this bit from his Wikipedia bio:

In 1995, Pearce became the Director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division. Pearce was fired from that position in 1999 by then Arizona Department of Transportation Director Mary Peters after an investigation revealed that Pearce and two underlings had tampered with a Tucson woman's driving record.

This is someone who obviously has no problem with handing police officers totalitarian powers -- and no problem with a little procedural abuse along the way.

And now his vision of law enforcement is Arizona law. Lovely.
 
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Hate Group Lawyer Drafted Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law
Posted in Anti-Immigrant by Heidi Beirich on April 28, 2010

Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law was written by a lawyer at the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as an anti-immigrant hate group since 2007. The law, a recipe for racial profiling, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. (See statement by SPLC Legal Director Mary Bauer.)

Kris Kobach, the author of the Arizona law and a lawyer at FAIR’s Immigration Reform Law Institute, has been the prime mover behind numerous ordinances that seek to punish those who aid and abet “illegal aliens,” including laws adopted in Farmer’s Branch, Texas, and Hazelton, Pa.

The laws have not done well and have cost some localities immense sums of money to defend. Recently, the city of Albertville, Ala., refused to work with Kobach on just such an ordinance, reportedly because of the high legal costs incurred by these other communities.

Before joining FAIR, Kobach served as U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s top immigration adviser. He then moved on to take charge of Department of Justice efforts to tighten border security after the 9/11 attacks. There, he developed a program — the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System — that called for close monitoring of men from Arab and Muslim nations, even legal U.S. residents. The program collapsed due to complaints of racial profiling and discrimination.

Given Kobach’s history with racial profiling, it is particularly alarming that he was tapped by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio in February to train his officers. A federal grand jury investigation is under way amid a slew of complaints that Arpaio used racial profiling techniques to round up suspected undocumented immigrants. The grand jury is also reportedly looking at whether Arpaio used his office to target political opponents.
FAIR’s poison is now spreading. Legislation similar to Arizona’s has been introduced in Texas, and six other states are considering doing so.

It’s not surprising to find a group like FAIR behind this repugnant law. FAIR has an extensive track record of racism and bigotry. The group, for example, has accepted $1.2 million from the racist Pioneer Fund, a foundation established to promote the genes of white colonials and fund studies of race, intelligence and genetics. FAIR has employed key staffers who have also joined white supremacist groups; it has board members who write regularly for hate publications; it promotes racist conspiracy theories about Latino immigrants; and it has produced television programming featuring white nationalists.

FAIR has been dominated for much of its life by its racist founder and current board member, John Tanton, who has written that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” Tanton’s role model for FAIR is John Trevor Sr., founder of the racist American Coalition of Patriotic Societies and a key architect of the racially restrictive Immigration Act of 1924. Trevor also distributed pro-Nazi propaganda and warned shrilly of “diabolical Jewish control” of America. Tanton once said Trevor should serve as FAIR’s “guidepost to what we must follow again this time.”

FAIR’s president, Dan Stein, has warned that immigrants are engaged in “competitive breeding” aimed at diminishing white power. He led efforts to win funding from the Pioneer Fund, saying in 1993 that his “job [was] to get every dime of Pioneer’s money.” Stein also served as editorial adviser to Tanton’s hate journal, The Social Contract, at a time when it ran its ugliest edition ever, “Europhobia: The Hostility Toward European-Descended Americans.” The issue’s lead article argued that multiculturalism was replacing “successful Euro-American culture” with “dysfunctional Third World cultures.” Stein has declined to offer any criticism of FAIR’s founder, instead characterizing Tanton last September as a “Renaissance man.”

The principal sponsor of the Arizona law, state Sen. Russell Pearce, has his own history of hate. In 2006, Pearce forwarded an email to his supporters from the neo-Nazi National Alliance titled “Who Rules America?” The article criticized the media for promoting multiculturalism and racial equality, and for presenting the Holocaust as fact. More recently, Pearce has been photographed hugging J.T. Ready, a Phoenix-area resident who is a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.
 
People who love soup are racists.

Proof:

Hitler loved soup.
Hitler was a racist.
Therefore, people who love soup are racists.


Nice job.
 
People who love soup are racists.

Proof:

Hitler loved soup.
Hitler was a racist.
Therefore, people who love soup are racists.

They might be if soup attended pro-Nazi rallies or hung around with white nationalists.

What of the articles? Are you suggesting these ties are really that inconsequential?
 
They might be if soup attended pro-Nazi rallies or hung around with white nationalists.

What of the articles? Are you suggesting these ties are really that inconsequential?

It's a logical fallacy. I'm sure one can find card-carrying Nazis at Boy Scout Jamborees and convicted child molesters at Habitat for Humanity. Guilt by association is the laziest form of deception. Once again: Hitler was a vegetarian.... Therefore.....
 
It's a logical fallacy. I'm sure one can find card-carrying Nazis at Boy Scout Jamborees and convicted child molesters at Habitat for Humanity.

The suggestion isn't that these relationships are happenstance; the suggestion is that they're intimate and born out of common interests.

Does this mean Obama and Reverend Wright, Ayers, and company are happenstance, too?
 
People who love soup are racists.

Proof:

Hitler loved soup.
Hitler was a racist.
Therefore, people who love soup are racists.


Nice job.

Nope.

The anti-immigration authors and the neo-Nazis shared a common defining behavior: their hatred towards minorities.

Hitler and soup lovers do not share a common defining behavior.

Once again, you fail.
 
The suggestion isn't that these relationships are happenstance; the suggestion is that they're intimate and born out of common interests.

Does this mean Obama and Reverend Wright, Ayers, and company are happenstance, too?

Terrorists give money to Obama's run for the White House. Why? Because they figure he will be kinder and gentler toward them than McCain. That does not mean they are correct, nor that Obama's views are correctly interpreted. The fallacy stands.

Were I to say, "I like being tied up for erotic sex play!" And half a dozen pedophiles and mentally disordered sex offenders eagerly chime in with their agreement, it reflects solely on them, not on me.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
 
Terrorists give money to Obama's run for the White House. Why? Because they figure he will be kinder and gentler toward them than McCain. That does not mean they are correct, nor that Obama's views are correctly interpreted. The fallacy stands.

Were I to say, "I like being tied up for erotic sex play!" And half a dozen pedophiles and mentally disordered sex offenders eagerly chime in with their agreement, it reflects solely on them, not on me.

This isn't about white supremacists supporting AZ's anti-immigration. This is about the principal architects of said policy being intimately involved with white supremacists.

There's a difference. Your two scenarios both address the former idea (a comparison that I understand and happen to agree with), but I don't feel they address the latter.
 
Nope.

The anti-immigration authors and the neo-Nazis shared a common defining behavior: their hatred towards minorities.

Hitler and soup lovers do not share a common defining behavior.

Once again, you fail.

Being against criminal behavior does not make one a minority hater.

Fail.
 
This isn't about white supremacists supporting AZ's anti-immigration. This is about the principal architects of said policy being intimately involved with white supremacists.

There's a difference. Your two scenarios both address the former idea (a comparison that I understand and happen to agree with), but I don't feel they address the latter.

Jan Brewer (Arizona governor, who signed the legislation) is intimately involved with white supremacists? Is that what you are saying? The Arizona legislature is majority white supremacist sympathizers?
 
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